Ethan Childerhose

Ethan Childerhose is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Steinmetz, a hardware engineering company based in the United States. Before establishing Steinmetz, he built a comprehensive technical background by holding specialized engineering positions at several prominent technology organizations, including Rocket Lab, Nvidia, Tesla, and Neuralink. His hardware engineering portfolio encompasses a wide range of complex projects, featuring components that have successfully reached the moon, commercial systems manufactured at a scale of millions of units, and specialized medical devices designed to process faint signals directly from the human brain. Operating across the entire electronics stack, his technical domain expertise ranges from intricate analog transistor-level circuit design to the mechanical engineering of heavy fixtures required for rigorous environmental testing. Childerhose currently focuses on advancing deep tech manufacturing and developing high-reliability hardware systems for complex aerospace, electric vehicle, and neurotechnology applications.